With the arrival of iOS 14.5, a version that has been replaced by the new iOS 14.5.1 since last Monday, we have found many new features. There is one in particular that refers to changes in the Apple Podcast interface, which is motivated by the arrival of a new subscription method. However, this application seems to be bringing other problems that make iPhone users see their storage space and data rate decreasing at a frantic rate. In this article we tell you the exact reason and how to solve it.
Why does your iPhone consume so much in this version?
Apple programmers should not have taken something into account and made that since iOS 14.5, most iPhone have seen some settings reset. This is the case of some Apple Podcasts that refer to the download of episodes automatically . By default, when you use an iPhone for the first time it will be configured so that new episodes of your favorite shows are downloaded automatically so that you can listen to them at any time and without having to be connected to the internet. Obviously this function is very useful, but also very counterproductive if you do not want it to be or if the download is done using mobile data.
In iPhones with little free storage space, this configuration is a real chore, since it makes the memory fill up with those podcast episodes that you probably don’t even need to have downloaded, since they can be listened to streaming perfectly. If we take into account the reduced mobile data rates, the problem increases, since it requires a very large amount of data depending on the duration of the podcast and the download could end with the rate of the month.
How to fix this problem so that it doesn’t happen anymore
Luckily, this iOS 14.5 problem has a solution that is extremely simple and fast to execute. If you never touched this setting or don’t directly remember how it was changed, you should know that you will only have to follow these steps to change it again and prevent podcasts from downloading by themselves:
- Open Settings on your iPhone.
- Go to Podcasts.
- Activate the “Block downloads via mobile network” tab.
- In “Downloads with data” choose the option “Always ask”.
This will prevent downloads from running when you are not connected to a WiFi network. On the other hand, if you want to delete the already downloaded podcasts, you will have to open this application and go to the “Library” tab and then go to “Downloads”. Once you are at that point, you will be able to see all the downloaded programs, being able to slide each one of them to the right and delete it. This will increase the storage space of your iPhone, since you will be freeing the space that that program used to occupy.
We hope that in future versions of iOS this problem will be fixed, since despite having an easy solution it can end up being a very important annoyance for those who do not know the steps to follow to reset the settings.
